Han Kang, Whose ‘The Vegetarian’ Was Made Into a Film, Wins Nobel Prize for Literature. The honor, one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of ...

Han Kang speaks to the media after winning the Man Booker International prize for fiction for her book "The Vegetarian'" in London, on May, 16, 2016. Ms. Han won the Nobel Prize for Literature Oct ...

The citation commended Han Kang's "intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life." She won the International Booker Prize for The Vegetarian in 2016.

Somewhere around the first quarter of The Vegetarian by Han Kang, the protagonist Yeong-hye describes her breasts as harmless, unlike the “weaponized” parts of her body: her hands, her gaze ...

Written by South Korean author Han Kang and translated by British writer Deborah Smith, “The Vegetarian” masterfully explores the lure of volatile human desire by challenging South Korean ...

Han’s 2007 novel The Vegetarian, her first novel to be translated into English, won the International Booker Prize in 2015.The story of Yeong-hye, a part-time graphic artist and homemaker, whose ...

South Korean novelist Han Kang, 53, won the Nobel Prize in Literature for her "intense poetic prose" addressing historical trauma and human fragility. Known for The Vegetarian, which won the 2016 ...

Han Kang, the South Korean author best known for her surreal, subversive novel “The Vegetarian,” was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday — the first writer from her country to ...

In 2016, the South Korean novelist Han Kang won the International Booker Prize for The Vegetarian, the first of her novels to ...

Somewhere around the first quarter of The Vegetarian by Han Kang, the protagonist Yeong-hye describes her breasts as harmless, unlike the “weaponized” parts of her body: her hands, her gaze ...

Kang, 53, has been a writer for over 30 years, but The Vegetarian—first published in 2007—was her first novel to be translated into English in 2015, and received widespread acclaim and attention.